Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 2 | I think you 'd get more than a t parking ticket looking at it for M O T wise if he get pulled . |
| 3 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 4 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 5 | The Fed is still sore from the criticism thrown at it for pushing America into recession ; if it tightens policy before official figures show inflation to be rising , it will come under fierce political attack . |
| 6 | The Brigadier glared at me for a few seconds and replied rather quietly . |
| 7 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 8 | The woman stared at him for a moment , without expression , and then with a little smile handed the doll back to Artemis . |
| 9 | The woman stared at him for a few moments as she mulled over his offer . |
| 10 | The other woman stared at her for a long moment , then , with great dignity , collected up the papers lying on the desk in front of her and got to her feet . |
| 11 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
| 12 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 13 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 14 | The young man looked at him for a while . |
| 15 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 16 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 17 | His mother looked at him for a moment without an expression on her face , then she smiled and waved her glass at him . |
| 18 | The thought of Harriet Shakespeare slipped into the thought of poor Keith standing awkward and miserable among his mess of papers , while his mother screamed at him for not being neat and ordinary , like Rachel . |
| 19 | The face stared at him for a moment , and then looked away . |